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Ramey, Luellen – 1984
This document provides a description and evaluation of the RECAP (Re-employment Career Planning)/JETS (Job, Education/Training, Selection) program, a cooperative re-employment training program for displaced automobile industry workers in Michigan. Following the brief introduction, program development and pre-training preparation are discussed,…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Dislocated Workers, Job Training, Program Descriptions
Lo Bosco, Maryellen – Personnel, 1985
Describes results of a survey of "Personnel" readers and human resource managers and/or training directors concerning the nature of training in their firms. Answers concern kinds of training, methods and tools, perceived success of training programs, retraining and special programs, and entry-level skill development. (CT)
Descriptors: Entry Workers, Job Training, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation
Download full textGeneral Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Health, Education, and Human Services Div. – 1996
The General Accounting Office reviewed the Social Security Administration's (SSA) Plan for Achieving Self-Support (PASS) program, which was established in 1972 to help disability benefit recipients return to employment. The study evaluated the SSA's management of the PASS program, including the program's impact on employment, and sought to…
Descriptors: Adults, Disabilities, Federal Programs, Incentives
O'Leary, Christopher J. – 1995
In 1993, about 93 percent of respondents previously surveyed in 1992 were reinterviewed as part of a study of the impact of labor market programs in postsocialist Hungary. The surveys investigated the impact of retraining and public service employment (PSE) on labor market success by comparing outcomes for participants to others who were…
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Employment Patterns, Employment Programs, Foreign Countries
Moock, Lynn D. – 1984
An evaluator studied the effectiveness of the displaced worker entry-level and the upgrade components of the electronics/robotics training program. Since the program was a pilot project with attendant trials and errors, a user-focused process of evaluation was selected. Entry-level students, administrators, the counselor, and instructors completed…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Dislocated Workers, Electronic Technicians, Improvement Programs
Carleo, Susan – 1985
An analysis is provided of three alternative solutions to the problem of overstaffed departments and underutilized faculty in the Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD). After providing a brief history and background to the staffing problems facing the district, section I examines three alternative solutions: (1) maintaining the status…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Community Colleges, Cost Effectiveness, Faculty Development
Visher, Mary G.; Walsh, Stephen – 1994
The Farmers and Ranchers Demonstration Project, funded by the Economic Dislocation and Workers Adjustment Act, provided funding for employment and training services to dislocated and at-risk farmers and ranchers and their dependents and employees in four states (Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota) from July 1, 1990 to September 30,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Demonstration Programs, Dislocated Workers, Employment Programs
European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, Berlin (West Germany). – 1987
This publication contains monographs on vocational training and regional development for six regions of the European Communities. The monograph on Lorraine (France) by Gerard Calais describes basic training structures, redeployment policies, requalification of job seekers, and coordination of training efforts. Profiles of development technicians…
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Economic Development, Educational Development, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedWerther, William B., Jr. – Employee Relations, 1985
After describing the history of Ford Motor Company's relationship with workers from the inception of the assembly line through recent years, the author describes results of the 1979 National Joint Committee on Employee Involvement and 1982 labor negotiations, which resulted in retraining projects, tuition assistance, and career counseling and…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Counseling Services, Employee Attitudes, Employer Attitudes
Ramey, Luellen – 1984
This paper describes the RECAP/JETS program, an acronym that represents the two components of a training process for laid-off workers: Re-employment Career Planning (RECAP) and Job/Education/Training Selection (JETS). A description of the process of program development discusses developing the collaborative network for program design, establishing…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Education, Career Planning, Decision Making
Doherty, Linda M.; Bacon, Steven F. – 1982
A project evaluated the effectiveness of two pilot Correctional Custody Units (CCUs), at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and Coronado, California, and the Behavioral Skills Training Unit (BEST) at Norfolk, Virginia. These units were intended to retrain errant, but potentially productive, first-term enlistees through a program of discipline, motivational and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Attrition (Research Studies), Correctional Rehabilitation, Counseling
Seppanen, Loretta – 1995
From 1991-93, 2,147 dislocated workers from timber-impacted counties of Washington state received Timber Retraining Benefits (TRB), with 81% using the aid to attend a state community or technical college. To determine the impact of the TRB program on the dislocated workers and their timber communities, the Washington State Board for Community and…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Community Colleges, Dislocated Workers, Economic Impact
Pang, Eng Fong; Low, Chee Kiat – 1994
The transformation of Singapore from a stagnating colonial port city in the late 1950s into a newly industrialized city-state in the early 1990s was the outcome of planned adjustments to changing internal and external conditions. Training and retraining programs played a role in these adjustments. Although full employment prevailed in 1979, the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Dislocated Workers, Economic Development
Florida State Postsecondary Education Planning Commission, Tallahassee. – 1990
This study examines the intent and operation of postsecondary education linkages with business and industry. Following an introduction, chapter II describes the Industry Services Training Program, which provides occupational training for jobs created by new, expanding, and diversified industry, and the Sunshine State Skills Program, which helps to…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Continuing Education, Economic Development, Job Skills
Olsen, Robert B.; Decker, Paul T. – 2001
The Worker Profiling and Reemployment Services (WPRS) program requires states to establish systems for identifying Unemployment Insurance (UI) claimants likely to exhaust their UI benefits and refers them to reemployment services. An evaluation was conducted to assess the reliability of the impact estimates provided in the evaluation of the WPRS…
Descriptors: Adults, Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis, Evaluation Methods
